"Unflinching in gaze, imbued with a sly wit, the poems in Jennifer Habel's mesmerizing first book capture moments so quietly alive that they function like glass-domed terrariums; you lift a belled lid on a complex, breathing little world."—
Lisa Olstein ,
author of Radio Crackling, Radio Gone

Jennifer Habel

Jennifer Habel is the author of Good Reason, winner of the 2011 Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition, and In the Little House, winner of the 2008 Copperdome Chapbook Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Believer, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, LIT, The Massachusetts Review, The Southeast Review, and elsewhere. She is the Coordinator of Creative Writing at the University of Cincinnati.

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He shouldn’t have worn sneakers. That was a mistake. A shower would have helped, too. Why could he never remember that skipping a shower didn’t lend him a feeling of rebelliousness, as his mirror would like to have him think, but only made him feel slimy, insecure?…